Sr. II Backend Engineer, Mobile API
Slickdeals, San Mateo, CA +1
What you will do
- Lead the design and delivery of complex APIs and backend services supporting iOS and Android applications.
- Own backend initiatives from discovery and technical planning through implementation, rollout, and production support.
- Partner with mobile engineers to define API contracts, dependencies, release strategies, and backward-compatibility requirements.
- Influence backend architecture and establish patterns that can be reused across mobile products.
- Identify technical risks early and present practical options and tradeoffs to engineering and product partners.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and observability of mobile-facing services.
- Lead technical design reviews and raise engineering standards through code reviews, testing strategies, and documentation.
- Diagnose complex production issues that span mobile clients, APIs, data services, and infrastructure.
- Reduce technical debt and simplify legacy systems while balancing near-term product delivery.
- Contribute to cross-platform including web API development when business priorities require it.